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“ HOLDFAST ” 
CASEMENT LOCK and ADJUSTER 


(Above cut shows sash at angle 


of 45 degrees—half open) 


A bent lever pivoted at “A,” with tubular arm “B,” 
in which solid rod “C’” slides as sash is swung. 
Knuckle “D” is screwed to sash. Bushing plate on 
stool receives pivot. Extension lever “F” is a rod 
screwed into “B” below stool with a sliding brass sleeve 
with knob handle. Push in to lock. Pull out to swing. 
Plate “E” with scolloped slot is counter-sunk flush in 
apron. 


ADVANTAGES OF THE 
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FOR OUTSIDE CASEMiIgNTS 


Does not interfere with screen or storm sash. 

No other lock and adjuster overcomes this difficulty. 

Locks firmly at any desired angle, or closed. 

Holds sash rigid in severest storm. 

Neat in appearance—does not mar the finest interior. 

Easy to operate—a child can open or close the win- 
dow. 

Even in case of extremely high wind with sash open 
as far as possible, only a slight effort necessary to close 
window. 

' Opens to 90 degrees. 


In short, an ideal casement sash lock and adjuster 
for convenience, ease of operation, durability and sim- 
plicity of construction. 


All bearings are machine made and accurately fitted. 


DIMENSIONS. 
From center of pivot to pin in end of long arm 13 
inches. 


From center of pivot to end of operating lever 
(locked) 5 inches. 


From center of pivot to end of operating lever (un- 
locked) 8% inches. 


MATERIALS: 


Solid brass, excepting rod in operating lever which 
is steel. 


BINISHES: 


Standard “Hold Fast’ Lock & Adjuster is in dull or 
natural brass. 

Special finishes to match other hardware when de- 
sired. 


INSTRUCTIONS FOR ORDERING. 


Order through your dealer. 

If he does not handle them, write us for name of 
dealer who does. 

In ordering, specify number of rights and lefts. 

Cuts below indicate which is right and which is left. 


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NOTE-IMPORTANT, 


While our standard “Hold Fast” Lock & Adjuster 
fit ordinary construction, yet there are extreme cases 
to which they are not applicable, and we REQUEST 
that all architects or owners contemplating the use of 
our “Hold Fast’ write us for full size window de- 
tails, which will be promptly furnished. 

We take this precaution in order to avoid making 
Special adjusters to fit cases not properly detailed for 
our goods, as the magnitude of our business makes it 
troublesome for us to manufacture special patterns. 


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JOINT SASH 


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The “Hook Fast” is the modern fastener for outside 
swinging casements. It has been in use for over a year 
and is now placed before the building public, having 
given entire satisfaction as to convenience and durabil- 
ity. It is easily handled. 

Quickly locked—your knuckles are always safe. 

Will not work loose on sash. 

Cannot strike jamb in closing. 

Requires no mortising of sash or jamb 

Draws the most badly warped and twisted sash tight. 
It is reversible, right or left. 

It is adjustable after it has been put on. 


DIMENSIONS. 
Plates, 11% x 17% inches—handle 3% inches long. 
MATERIALS. 


Hooks, fine. tempered spring steel; balance bronze 


metal. 
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CASEMENT WINDOWS 


Why they should be adopted 


for American Homes 


HERE is a quaint charm, a delightful Anglo- 
Saxon home look to the house with the casement 
windows which is recognized alike by architect 

and layman. Considered purely from a practical stand- 
point, as compared with windows of other types, case- 
ments contribute vastly to home comfort during our hot 
American summers: They are indeed the ideal window 
for openings of moderate size. Why, then, have they 
been hitherto so little used in the United States except 
in buildings where scholarly conformity to style has de- 
manded a grouped or mullioned fenestration? 

SWUNG INWARD, they interfere with the simple ar- 
rangement of shades and hangings and are more or less 
in the way, particularly in rooms of ordinary size. 

SWUNG OUTWARD, as they should be, for ventilation, 
resistance to the weather and convenience, the fly 
screens (a necessity in. America) are hung on the in- 
side. As the “Hold Fast” operates the sash without in- 
terfering with the screen or requiring it to be opened, . 
no flies can enter and this feature of our adjuster will 
be particularly gratifying where our device is applied 
to windows in dining room and kitchen: where ample 
ventilation is an absolute necessity. 

Appreciating the beauty and ventilating qualities of 
casements, many architects and others have devoted 
much thought to devising some means of overcoming 
the serious difficulty presented by the combination of an 


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outside casement sash and the window screen, but 
until the “Hold Fast” was invented, no adjuster over- 
came the screen difficulty, although many of the most 
artistic residence designers in the country continued to 
employ casement sash almost entirely in their work, 
notwithstanding the difficulties mentioned. 

The “Hold Fast” entirely overcomes all objections 
to outside casements, and makes the casement at once 
the most convenient and comfortable as well as the 
most artistic window for residences. 

It is something which architects and owners have 
been wanting for many years and is destined to largely 
increase the use of the casements. 


This House at Winnetka, Ill., also the Stable and Lodge, are Equipped 
Throughout with Hold-Fasts and Hook-Fasts 


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~WINDOWS* 
By ROBERT GC. SPENCER, Jr. 


HAT type or types of windows are the best 
suited to the modern house? The question is 
one of light, ventilation, beauty, convenience 

and architectural style, which, like all other cardinal 
questions of house designing, is commonly decided by 
blind custom and fashion, or economy in first cost, 
rather than by careful study. 

During an active practice of over ten years, devoted 
largely to a careful study of the house problem in all 
its aspects, the writer has tested every well known type 
of window from a practical standpoint and feels war- 
ranted in speaking with authority, although well aware 
that his conclusions conflict at certain points with thase 
of some of his colleagues whose dicta on this same 
subject are already recorded in print. 

Within the past fifteen years there has been a 
growing revolt against the square and uncomprom- 
ising double-hung or guillotined window, which _be- 
gan as a criticism of its ugliness, or rather lack of 
beauty as compared with the English casement window 
in domestic work. 

Much of the charm and “homeliness” of English 
dwellings, whether cottage or rambling country house, 
is due to the almost universal use of casement windows 
in the British Isles. 

As soon as we began using them we began to ap- 
preciate their utility as well as their beauty, until now 


*Reprinted by permission of the House Beautiful Magazine. 


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Residence oy R. C. Spencer, Jr.; Architect, located at River Forest, Ill 
\ equipped with ‘Hold-Fasts’’ and ‘ Hook-Fasts ”’ 


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many home builders are insisting upon having them 
who. are not simply actuated by a desire to give an English 
effect to ‘their houses. In short, casement windows 
seem to be the coming window for dwellings of all 
classes, strictly on its merits, although it will be some 
years before it is adopted by the speculative builder. 
In England it is the general custom to swing casement 
window sash outward. 


It is generally conceded even by their advocates, 
that casements swinging in cannot be made as weather 
tight as those which swing out without more or less 
complicated arrangements for lifting as well as swing- 
ing the sash in order that, when closed, it may set be- 
low and outside the window stool. 

The late Mr. F. E. Kidder, the recognized American 
authority and writer on building construction and super- 
intendence, emphatically favors the casement swinging 
out on this score, if no other. 


Granted, however, that the inside casement is made 
sufficiently weather tight, in a room of modest di- 
mensions, particularly a bedroom, the window swinging 
inward, if opened more than a little for full ventila- 
tion in warm weather, is always in the way. One can 
never sit comfortably at a half-open casement which 
swings in. It must either be opened but slightly or 
folded back against the wall,.and wall space is not 
always available. 


Anther difficulty with the inside casement is with 
the curtains or shade, which must be secured separately 
to each sash. If the sash is open more than a little 
for bedroom ventilation, there is no barrier to the 
light, an important consideration in the summer. There 
must either be too little hot weather ventilation or 
too much early morning sunshine. Casements of either 
type, however, afford double the ventilation for a given 


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glass area than can be had with double-hung sash, an 
important consideration during the summer months, 
even in the North. 


Hung, as they should be, to open out in alternating 
directions, they serve as vanes to deflect cooling 
breezes into the room, even where the direction of the 
wind is parallel to the side of the building, so that east 
or west windows may give the occupants of a bedroom 
the benefit of southerly breezes on a hot night, even 
though the room has no southerly exposure. 

In cool weather, or when the breeze is unpleasantly 
strong, a window of this type may be opened against 
the wind, serving as a screen or fender. 


But one valid objection has been made to the use of 
outside casements, being a necessity of hanging the 
screens and storm sash inside and opening them in 
some way to reach the sash whenever the sash requires 
opening or closing, the several types of casement sash 
adjusters hitherto available not having been designed to 
do away with this difficulty. 


During the past year, however, to overcome this one 
difficulty, a new adjuster has been devised and placed 
on the market, strong and simple in construction and 
neat in appearance, which easily operates the sash from 
the inside of a screen or storm window, thus making 
outside casements, in the writer’s opinion, the most con- 
venient, practical, and artistic of all windows for resi- 
dence work where the sash of large size are not re- 
quired by the character or the architectural style and — 
purposes of the building. 


Note—In the above article Mr. Spencer undoubtedly 
referred to the “Hold Fast” as he has recently used a 
number of them in his own residence. 


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The Casement Window: 
Why Not?* 
By ESTHER MATSON 


HE old name for window was windor, or wind- 
door, prettily signifying that it was a door for 
the wind to go in and out of. 

This was really true of the French or casement win- 
dow, but we of America, with our plate-glass sashes, 
when we wish to “aerate” our rooms, can only do it half- 
way. Our modern windows, if we stop to think about 
them, are calculated to make us turn cynics quite as 
truly as our much talked about political frauds... These 
holes in our walls cheat the uninitiated into believing 
he can open them at will. But, alas! we, the initiated, 
know that those sashes are fastened in with all the red 
tape abominations of cords and weights, and that we 
can only lift them either up (so that we get one-half a 
window) or down (so that we get the other half). 

If, as the poets have long told us, we call the eyes 
the windows of the soul, then contraiwise the windows 
are the soul of the house. And at that rate, what 
pitiable souls most of our houses have! 

But perhaps one can hardly expect the modern specu- 
lation-built block house, the “brick box with tin lid,” 
as somebody has aptly put it, to have a soul. 

Go and look at one out of any hundred city resi- 
dence squares. Contemplate the row upon row of lack- 
luster light-holes. Compare them with the jewel-like 
window-clusters in Venetian palaces, or with the hum- 
bler but none the less charming diamond panes of some 


Reprinted by permission of the House Beautiful Magazine. 
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A Modern American Home equipped with 
Hold-Fasts and Hook-Fasts. 


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old English cottages, such as the romantic one of 
Judith Shakespeare. 

All very well in romance and theory, you say, but 
I say: Why not the romance and the theory worked 
out,—the casement—in practice? Why should we not 
do all we can to make daily life a joy? There will be 
grind enough about it in any case. 

By no twisting of terms can you make it a joy to 
screw yourself into all sorts of abnormal knots (as 
you now have to do) and raise or lower the ordinary 
sash. Only suppose, instead, that you may fling wide 
a casement. Why, you will be bound then to drink 
deep breaths of wholesome air and to broaden your 
lungs and become by the very act a nobler creature. 


Moreover, look at the matter from the housekeeper’s 
side. The average American window is so ugly in it- 
self, that to cover up its sinfulness the modern house- 
keeper has to fill it with curtains. Enter one more 
vexing problem into the already vexing multitude of 
domestic problems! 


It is another case similar to that of the Greek sculp- 
tor who reprimanded his pupil with the cutting, “You 
have ruined your statue with adornment because you 
could not make it beautiful.” 


If our windows were beautiful enough in construc- 
tion and proportion, we should need only the simplest 
of draperies for them or possibly none at all. Why 
not, indeed, some sort of Venetian blind made’ decora- 
tive and beautiful in itself, to answer all necessities of 
privacy and occasional darkening? But that is Utopian 
just yet. To-day we are living in the bandage era and 
swathe ourselves in layer after layer of lace and bro- 
cade. 

The block community will consider us in the last 
stages of poverty if we do not flaurt at least one pair of 


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lace curtains in our front parlor windows. It is more 
respectable to line the glass with another piece of lace 
also, but we are not yet “impossible” if we fail to have 
achieved that degree of refinement. 

I once spent a feverish night in a guest chamber 
whose insufficient window had no less than five thick- 
nesses of stuffs, not to mention the pane itself. I 
could scarcely have felt worse had I been five fathoms 
deep, cut off from God’s air. And since that night I 
have never scoffed again at our grandfathers for their 
fears of ghosts. 

One more practical inconvenience that comes with our 
present style of window. When you open it, out fly 
all those multitudinous, those nefarious draperies, and 
then, if you care about that part of it, what sort of a 
“looking” house-front have you? What is more im- 
portant, how militate against the inevitable wear and 
tear on those expensive frills and furbelows? 


“Aht? you say;. it-sounds all right... But 1f 15° a 
physical impossibility,—your casement. In the first 
place, it’s too cold for our climate. Besides, it leaks. 
And then it’s too hard to clean. You can’t get at it to 
wash it. So there’s no use talking about it.” 


But there is use in talking. It is demand, we are 
always being told, that creates supply. Moreover, the 
objections can be met and obviated. 


This is a cold climate——the sooner we acknowledge 
it, the better,—and therefore weather-strips are made, 
and we can shut out Jack Frost at will. But this is 
also a hot climate (in summer, often torrid). There- 
tore we must be able to let in all the breeze there may 
be. So we may build casements and throw them wide. 

“But in summer it will rain and in winter it will 
snow and sleet, and then your casement leaks,’ you 
say. Yes; it will leak if it opens in; but open it out, 


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and it will be perfectly tight. “But you wouldn't go 
without cleaning your windows, would you?” If you 
will build your casements each of a size no wider than 
an arm’s length, the difficulty of washing disappears. 
You may group these narrow casements in as many and 
varied combinations as you wish. There you have 4 
new opportunity for showing the grace of proportion 
and charm of repetitions. There is infinite possibility 
here. 

In the early days of Great Britain, a tax known as 
the window tax, was levied on every house that had 
more than six of the so-called luxuries. To-day, even 
the forlorn squatter must have one or more of these 
“necessities” in his shanty. We have progressed a 
little. We realize it when we remember that in the 
earlier days, still it was only the prince or powerful 
noble who could fill his window panes with glass. 
The commoners had to be content with wicker-work 
made of stripped oak or with horn. 

But, having advanced so far, it is a pity we should 
not go further, and lift this making of windows to an 
art. The business-buildings and department stores 
have caused the designers to study their window pos- 
sibilities from the utilitarian standpoint, and great has 
been the result therefrom. 

Why is it not worth the house-makers’ while to make 
the very utmost of this most expressive feature of a 
house, the window? In our planning of homes, let 
us remember the vast possibilities of the casement win- 
dow. 


NOTE—The “Hold Fast,;’. which was put on the 
market at about the time Esther Matson wrote the 
above article, although then unknown to her, over- 
comes all the dificultics attending the use of outside 
swinging casements referred to by her. 


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Extracts from a few of the many gratifying letters we 
have received concerning our specialties 


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KNOXVILLE, TENN., 4-21-06. 

We have given your casement adjuster careful con- 

sideration, and we consider same an excellent ad- 
juster and holder. Barser & Kiuttz. 


LAWRENCE, Mass., 4-22-00. 
Your casement sash adjuster is just what I have been 
looking for for a long time, and is the only one known 
to me on the market which does not interfere with the 
window screens. Jas. E. ALLEN. 


CANTON, ILL., 6-8-06. 

I am pleased to state that the Holdfast Casement Ad- 
justers I purchased from you are in operation and 
much liked. I consider them a complete success. They 
are very simple and very effective. The advantage is 
that you can open ‘or close the window without remov- 
ing the screen, which in the windows of my residence 
are on the inside. Wa. H. Partin. 


KNOXVILLE, TENN., 6-8-06. 
I think your device for a casement window a most 
excellent one. M. E. PaRMELEE. 


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NOTE—We do not wish to burden our prospective 
customers with the task of reading endless testimonials, 
as the above give the general opinion of all as to the 
merits of our goods. 


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Typical detail for casements with deep inside re- 
veals and wide stools (any width) adapted to our 
regular standard adjuster, which is fitted to a small 
sub-stool, leaving a clear, unobstructed window stool 
or ledge inside the screen or storm sash. 


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